Celfypridd

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Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)

Nick McGaughey will be reading his work and bringing with it his very special brand of humour. Nicholas lives in Pontypridd. He has new work in Bad Lilies/Stand/Lucent Dreaming/The Friday Poem and Spelt Magazine.

Nicholas played Brandon Monk in Pobl y Cwm for 10 years and has had his poetry widely published including most recently in the hit anthology A470.

Its getting closer! VoicesontheBridge is a great night to hear poets, spoken word and song, music too!

Reading and performing with Nick will be – Rachel Carney, Carole Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, Ben Wildsmith, Johnny Giles, Pete Akinwunmi & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by @ClwbyBont and is a free event!

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

You’re all welcome to share this post helps enormously to get the word out there!

Formed in a storm by the breaking of a limb

a time when wolves roamed

now I lie fallen after five hundred years

my time is taken too, like yours.

Fractured and broken sand stone walls sheep folds

the old names have been deleted a pasting over of history

that endless creep and the landscape has lost a sense of itself

I see hear your name in the old place and you haunt us still.

©robcullen29062017 published The Learned Pig.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont Pontypridd Thursday 19th October
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Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)
A glorious night for a rich spread of Poetry, Spoken Word & Song!

Johnny Giles Johnny Giles is a radical tour guide, poet, journalism graduate, activist and call centre refugee from Cardiff. An active member of the South Wales arts scene since 2012, Johnny has performed in Edinburgh, Merthyr, Pontypridd, Cardiff, Laugharne, London Swansea and Swindon. His debut pamphlet (Chalk Outlines, Blackheath Books) was released in 2014, a year after he suffered a breakdown midway through his degree. Other publications include CCQ Magazine, Envoi, Culture Matters, Red Poets (forthcoming), The Blackheath Counter Cultural Review and the Frequency House Poetry Slam Anthology. He writes across a range of themes including politics, mental health, social history and war. Since August he has been running a tour in association with the Wallich and Invisible Cities called Poetry Protest and Place following a 9 month stay in temporary accomodation. He now lives in Butetown.

Reading and performing with Johnny will be – Rachel Carney, Carole Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by @ClwbyBont and is a free event!

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Your all welcome to share this post helps enormously to get the word out there!

Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)

In these serious times come relax, listen and enjoy a treat of a night of words – Poetry, Spoken Word Song.

Ben Wildsmith is a singer songwriter from Birmingham who lives in the Rhondda and has performed around the world for the last 30 years. His songs combine folk and blues elements with sharp lyrics and an ironic take on subjects ranging from philosophy to politics, love and loss. He’s a published writer of fiction and a columnist for Nation Cymru. His new album, ‘Damn My Sense of Humour’ will be released in 2023 and his memoir will be published by Calon Books in 2024

Reading and performing with Ben will be – Carole Burns, Rachel Carney, Sion Tomos Owen, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

You are all welcome to share this post helps enormously to get the word out there!

More Bridges Less Walls!

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Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)

A glorious night for a rich spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Rachel Carney is a creative writing tutor and PhD student based in Cardiff. Her poems, reviews and articles have been published in numerous magazines including Poetry Wales, Anthropocene, and Acumen. She won the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition and was voted runner up in the Bangor Poetry Competition in 2021. Two of her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her debut collection Octopus Mind is published by Seren Books.

Reading and performing with Rachel will be – Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge@ClwbyBont Pontypridd

So come in from the gloom of Autumn nights for a real spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Reading and performing will be Rachel Carney, Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge@ClwbyBont Pontypridd

So come in from the gloom of Autumn nights for a real spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Reading and performing will be Rachel Carney, Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont Pontypridd

Thursday 21st September ’23

starts 7.45pm.

VoicesontheBridge has much to offer in a wide range of poets, writers, musicians and performers – If you think you might want to read your poems or sing and are nervous about it – come along and have a listen there’s nothing like dipping your toe in the water … VoicesontheBridge might just be what youre looking for! Come along and listen… and relax!

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Stephen Payne was born in Merthyr Tydfil and lives in Penarth, South Glamorgan. His first full collection, Pattern Beyond Chance, was published in 2015 by HappenStance Press and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The Windmill Proof (September 2021) and The Wax Argument and other Thought Experiments (February 2022) were published by the same press.

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Stephen Payne will be reading with Mike McNamara, Topher Mills, Leigh Manley, Mary Kaye, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.

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Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.

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Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

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More Bridges Less Walls.

Pontypridd a Town of Bridges.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont Ponypridd
Thursday 21st September ’23

VoicesontheBridge has another exceptional lineup of poets, writers, musicians and performers – If you think you might want to read, are nervous about it – come along and have a listen … VoicesontheBridge might just be what youre looking for! Come along and listen… and relax!

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Mike McNamara had his Selected Poems Overhearing The Incoherent published by Grevatt and Grevatt in 1997. His poems have appeared in Acumen, The Atlanta Review, Orbis, International Times, Ink Sweat & Tears, The New Welsh Review, Tears in the Fence, etc. His ebook This Transmission was published in Oct. 2019 by The Argotist Online. His print book Dialling A Starless Past was published by Arenig Press in December 2019 and his collection Loose Canon was published in July 2020 by Canada’s Subterranean Blue Poetry. His poem Other Times was featured in the 2022 Bridport Literature newsletter and his latest collection Mondegreen was published in Nov. 2022 by US publisher Aji Press
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With Mike McNamara will be Topher Mills, Leigh Manley, Mary Kaye, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.
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Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.
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Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.
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More Bridges Less Walls.

Pontypridd a Town of Bridges.